Fishing float



Patented Aug. 12, l924.

NITE!) STATE DUDLEY GABST, OIE WATRLOO, IOWA..

FISHING FLO'AT.

Application filed May 27, 1922.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, DUDLEY Gansr, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk Count-y, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fishing Floats, of which the followingl is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in iishing floats, and the object of my improvement is to provide for elongated elast-ic buoyant floats having splits extending from one side longitudinally to or beyond'y the longitudinal axis thereof to receive a shing line, means for compressibly and adj ustingly holding the split apart parts of the iioats together to prevent escape of the line therefrom and to hold the line frictionally against displacement by ordinary forces.

This object I have achieved by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figs. 1, 3, 5, and 7 are elevations of slightly different shaped elongated iioats provided with different modifications of my improved holding means; Fig. 2 is a view, partially in plan and partially in horizontal section of said Fig. l, and Figs. 4, 6, and 8 are respectively horizontal sections taken through the upper annular grooves of the floats shown in said Figs. 3, 5, and 7.

In said drawings, similar numerals of reference denote similar structures throughout the several views.

While my improved holding and fastening means may be applied in any desired way to floats of many different shapes or any shape, I have preferred to display them in the above drawings as used on {ioats of spindle or elongated shapes, coned downwardly frustally with the larger end in each case at the top, the tops being rounded.

For the purpose of inserting the fishing line 3 and holding it frictionally, each float l has a longitudinal split 2 extending inwardly from one side to or beyond the longitudinal axis of the float, but I prefer to extend the split beyond this axis when the float is made of cork or similar elastic conipressible material, as the unsplit part of the float in the plane of said split 2 is thus made more hinge-like, while leaving less solid y material in said plane to gradually imbibe water and swell which would impair the resilience of the float and tend to spread apart the split portions with more force.

Serial No. 564,173.

An elongated float is much more responsive to slight pulls upon the line, it rests normally vertically in the water with its larger end up, and the smaller conically diminished part below has less resistance to the water.

The line 3 is inserted in the split 2 to be positioned in the longitudinal axis of the float where it is gripped frictionally by the compressible elastic walls of the split to hold it as against pulling lengthwise by small forces, although the line may be pulled through the split by the exercise upon it of suflicient force, in order to adjust the position of the loat thereon, or to remove the line. However, I have provided certain novel means for keeping these split parts of the float" in contact under compression, these means being designed and operative in such a way, that the line 3 may be readily removed from the ioat by shifting it sidewise through the split, so that it becomes unnecessary to remove sinkers or hooks from the line or detaching the line from a pole. The line is thus? held in the split 2 without possibility of wear or injury such as might be occasioned if it were secured to the float by a metal clamp or fastener.

It has heretofore been difficult to prevent the split apart portions of a cork float from spreading when the cork has been immersed long enough to have become swelled. I prevent this inconvenience in the following manner.

The conical float l has near its upper and lower ends the annular grooves 4 and 5 respectively crossing the split 2. In these grooves are seated the split-rings 7 and 6 respectively, the split-ring 7 preferably having its extremities at its split bent angularly outwardly at 8 beyond the exterior periphery of the. float, and as this ring is made from elastic metal, the ring may be partially rotated in the groove 4 by pressure of a finger on the hither extremity 8 which has the effect of slightly spreading the ring while letting it move easier, the ring then reacting to compress the separated parts of the float upon the line`3l frictionally, the ring crossing the split 2 and preventing escape sidewise of the line. The other splitring 6 needs no angular extremities as it remains permanently positioned in Vsaid groove 6 with its split coincident with the split 2, for the ring 6 is sti enough to hold the separated parts of the oat tightly to- Y. spreadin thus being turned and is put under greater tensionjso in reaction it correspondingly compresses the parts separated by the split 2 to hold the line 8 more rmly.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the ring 7 has its outvturned extremities shaped into small rings .8 and 9, and the ring is made of sutlicient vlength sothat after insertion of the line 8 its said extremities may be overlapped so as V to engagerthe krings 8 .and 9 together, they being relatively positioned in different planes or at right angles relative to each fing of its ends orrothervvise.

other for interlocking. The part of the ring 7 opposite'its split may have a twist to provide an eye 10, and a small tool may be inserted in this eye to further'twist it about when it is necessaryto contract the length or toiincrease it in the interlock- ,The split-ring of Figs, 7 and8 is similar to the ring 7 lrings v8 and 9 in parallel planes,l which en- Y gage each o therby overlapping in a similar manner. Y Y v Y Having described my invention, What l ofFig. 5,v but has the terminalv claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. A fishing iioat, comprising an elongated elastic buoyant Warpable body having a groove around it, said groove being of uncircular contour With its larger transverse dimension positioned at an angle to a split provided longitudinally in said body, and a split-ring mounted in said groove and shaped to be spread apart when the ring is rotated to place its split out ot' line with the split in said body.

2. A fishing float, comprising an elongated elastic semi-split body Whose split extends longitudinally to the axis of the body, a iishing-line traversing said split along its inner limit and held by elastic reaction ol the walls ct' the split, said body consisting ot Water Warpable material and having annular grooves around its opposite ends, and split-rings constructed oi: resilient material seated around said body compressingly in said annular grooves, and one ot them being uncircular and having terminal integral interlocking parts,

A fishing float, comprising an elongated body of elastic substance having a longitudinal split extending to its longitudinal axis, split-rings mounted around opposite end parts of said body to elastic-ally coinpress the ends to prevent warping apart at said split, said body having an uncircular region to seat and to prevent escape of one of said split-rings.

Signed at Vaterloo, Iowa, this 12th day or' May, 1922.

DUDLEY GARST. 

